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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

Wiles

1: μεθοδεία

(Strong's #3180 — Noun Feminine — methodia[-eia] — meth-od-i'-ah )

denotes "craft, deceit" (meta, "after," hodos, "a way"). "a cunning device, a wile," and is translated "wiles (of error)" in Ephesians 4:14 , RV [AV paraphrases it, "they lie in wait (to deceive)"], lit., "(with a view to) the craft (singular) of deceit;" in Ephesians 6:11 , "the wiles (plural) (of the Devil.)"

Bibliography Information
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Wiles'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/w/wiles.html. 1940.

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